The Reaction to Knut Wicksell’s First Cause Célèbre: The Chief Cause of Social Misfortunes

Mats Lundahl
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Chapter 2 in Seven Figures in the History of Swedish Economic Thought, 2015, pp 20-54 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract On 19 February 1880, the 28-year-old bachelor of arts Knut Wicksell made his first — but not by any means his last — cause célèbre — in front of the temperance lodge Hoppets Här (The Army of Hope) in a Lutheran mission hall in Uppsala.1 Wicksell, who six years before had emerged from a religious crisis, had acquired what was in fact to become a second religion for him — a religion which he stuck to for the rest of his life.2 Two years before, he had read the Swedish translation of the Scottish physician George Drysdale’s The Elements of Social Science (En medicine doktor, 1878), and after only a month and a half he had made the main ideas of the book his own (Gårdlund, 1996, p. 47). It was those ideas that he chose to propagate in front of the temperance lodge.

Keywords: Population Growth; Political Economy; Early Marriage; Population Problem; Swedish Economic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137293091_2

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